Self-Reconfigurable Embedded Systems on Low-Cost FPGAs

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Gonzalez;Estanislao Aguayo;Sergio Lopez-Buedo

  • Affiliations:
  • George Washington University;CIEMAT;Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Hardware acceleration significantly increases the performance of embedded systems built on programmable logic. Allowing a FPGA-based MicroBlaze processor to self-select the coprocessors it uses can help reduce area requirements and increase a system's versatility. With a simple hardware arrangement, requiring only a few external connections and no additional components, low-cost FPGAs such as Xilinx's Spartan-3 can become self-reconfigurable platforms.